I'll be sharing my Photoshop experience in this blog post.
As I had never used a sophisticated editing tool like this one before, it wasn't very simple, but I learnt a lot following the tutorial and practicing on my own and I'm happy to share the end result here.
First, we did a composite image as a class and we followed a tutorial and this was my final product:
This was a mix of 4 different base images, along with filters and lighting alterations.
Here you can see the different layers I have, as well as the adjustments I made to the lighting. However, the tools I used, are not visible.
I used:
Quick selection tool. I was able to select just the player and move him from one image to my main image.
Polygonal lasso tool. This was just to clean up some of the edges and make the soccer player looks more precise.
Move tool. I used this to place the player exactly where I wanted him. Also, to put the overlapping images in the correct spot before reducing the opacity.
Free transform. It helped me resize the player exactly to the size I needed to look like on the screen.
Merge layers tool. I had to use this to flatten out the layers so I can move them around even after the lighting and coloring adjustments.
Applying what I had learned from this assignment, I created my own composite image.
Here are the images I used to create it:
Main photo: Be the Change @ Wynwood Walls.
This is my main photo. I took this picture in one of my visit to the Wynwood Walls. I chose this picture because I like the message but added small things to personalized to my style and tied it all together.
These are the images I chose
Stickers to add to one of the "stop signs". The bee will go well in the "Be" section
A cute dog who makes any scene friendlier.
A tennis ball to add next to the dog to evoque a sense of fun and playfulness.
I took the circled elements and added them to the main photo. I altered the lighting of all 3 elements before adding them into my main photo.
My final product looked like this:
I used the same tools that I learned to use in the soccer composite image which were:
Quick selection tool. This was to select the dog, the stickers, and the tennis ball and take it from one image into my main image.
Polygonal lasso tool. This was just to clean up some of the edges and make the added elements looks more precise. For the tennis ball I used the elliptical marquee tool which was perfect to make the circular selection.
Move tool. I used it to place the items right where I wanted them within my main image..
Free transform. It helped me get the objects to the exact size I wanted them to look like on the screen.
Here is a screenshot of the different layers while working the image in Photoshop, although there is not much to see since the editing of the 3 elements was done in their own image.
Overall, I learned how to use different tools and the value of lighting. When adding new features to a shot, it is imperative that they blend together, and for that, the lighting needs to be compatible. In the soccer image, I only had to really edit one main element, so practicing it three more times in my own composite image was helpful.
I wouldn't say that I am a Photoshop expert now, but I am interested to improve my skills and discover how to use new and different tools.
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